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...gave Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian ample scope for lush sets that imparted a sense of grandeur to the opera's five scenes. American Soprano Mary Costa, who played Ninette, sang beautifully but seemed lost in the schmalz-larded story. Only the heroine's quadroon mother, Cleo, superbly sung by Contralto Irene Dalis, took on the dimensions of life-a singular achievement while coping with some embarrassing lyrics: "Love had fled from your white heart, but my black one still lives in its hell...
...June 1936 Valley Forge gave him his only diploma. As literary editor of the yearbook, Salinger presented to the school a damply magnificent floral arrangement, since set to music and still sung at Last Parade...
...second act opens in Tangier, the Casbah. Ali and the Arabs run through an effective rendition of "The Customer's Always Right," sung earlier on board ship by the purser and stewards. The scene shifts to the ship's nursery and one of the lightest bits of comedy in the entire production...
...Verdi indicated that the first-act quartet, "Quell'oltre," was to be sung unaccompanied, but it is regularly performed today with full orchestral accompaniment...
...famous "Laugh, Falstaff" at the beginning of Act II is marked allegro sostenuto, but it is always sung exactly the reverse, staccato...